Hendrik Luehrsen (@luehrsen) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Hendrik Luehrsen is one of the founders and the current CEO of the Munich, Germany based agency Luehrsen // Heinrich. He is married with two children and has a dalmatian called “Emma” who serves as the office dog in the Agency.

Interests

Hendrik’s interests include gaming, storytelling, and science fiction. He enjoys playing video games and telling stories, and loves learning about new scientific discoveries and technologies. Hendrik is also interested in the potential of WordPress to help businesses grow and succeed online.

WordPress Origin Story

Hendrik started using WordPress for private projects in the late 2000s, after using the blogging platform Serendipity. He started using WordPress professionally for the Games Magazine “Krautgaming” after having a bad experience with a self-written CMS in a startup.

After founding his agency, he realized that many companies would benefit from a WordPress-powered website. As a result, he started creating and selling WordPress websites as a product.

Badges

CODE

4 badges

Core Contributor '18 Meta Contributor '22 Pattern Author '22 Plugin Developer

CONTENT

1 badge

Photo Contributor '22

COMMUNITY

2 badges

Meetup Organizer '22 WordCamp Organizer '23

POLYGLOTS

2 badges

Translation Contributor '16 Translation Editor '21

Current Job

CEO, Developer, Strategist

Present

Luehrsen // Heinrich

Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

Last 30 days

1contribution

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medium1

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Last 90 days

1contribution

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medium1

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Last 12 months

1contribution

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Team focus

Across 2 teams, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 4 releases

Time commitment

1 hour per week of sponsored contribution time

Luehrsen // Heinrich

Contributions

Type

October 2026

Oct 12 Mon · 10:35

GitHub med

Created issue #608 in the WordPress/wp-feature-notifications repository:
Explore notifications in AI-assisted and automated WordPress workflows

June 2024

Jun 13 Thu · 09:05

Core med

Created issue #62533 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
`FormTokenField`: Issues with multiple identical strings

September 2023

Sep 29 Fri · 17:11

Forums med

Posted a reply to [Citations] Support for shortcodes?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @jenxi, yes, this is on our roadmap! https://github.com/luehrsenheinrich/wpm-citations/issues/124

Sep 26 Tue · 07:58

Forums med

Posted a reply to [Citations] Allowing live links in citations?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, there is! :) https://github.com/luehrsenheinrich/wpm-citations/issues/18

Sep 25 Mon · 19:01

Forums med

Posted a reply to [Citations] Citations truncated when displayed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This issue should have been fixed with the latest patch.

Sep 25 Mon · 08:44

Forums med

Posted a reply to [Citations] Citations truncated when displayed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @curtismchale, found the issue, will publish a fix shortly! Thank you for reporting this!

Sep 23 Sat · 11:33

Forums med

Posted a reply to [Citations] Shortcode Support, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @niyazpoyilan, that is a great idea! I've gone ahead and added an issue for…

July 2023

Jul 25 Tue · 08:31

Meta high

Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Germany 2023

Jul 21 Fri · 10:07

Forums med

Posted a reply to [WP Munich Blocks - Gutenberg Blocks for WordPress] Warning: The magic method WPM_…::__wakeup() must have public visibility in …, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @sankari, thank you for bringing our attention to this! This is indeed a very…

June 2023

Jun 21 Wed · 18:25

Core high

Mentioned in [55968] on WordPress SVN:
Administration: Add the `no-store` and `private` directives to the `Cache-Control` header when preventing caching for logged in users.